The Copper Staircase

Part Two of The Secret of the Red Thread series
A Nancy Drew & Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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When Violet Hunter comes to 221B Baker Street with an impossible job offer, Sherlock Holmes hears danger at once.

The salary is too high. The conditions are too strange. Wear a dead girl's dress. Sit by a certain window. Cut your hair to match a daughter who has supposedly gone to America.

Nancy Drew hears something else.

A house with mirror-image walls. A frightened pair of elderly sisters next door. A locked wing. A missing woman. A family fortune. And somewhere beneath it all, a passage no one is meant to find.

As Holmes and Nancy follow separate threads through the same carefully built trap, The Copper Beeches becomes more than a crime scene. It becomes a test of how two great detectives think, how they miss each other, and how dangerous they become when they finally begin to see the same shape in the dark.

A modern Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew mystery filled with gothic atmosphere, hidden rooms, emotional restraint, dry wit, and the unsettling discovery that some houses are not haunted by ghosts.

They are haunted by control.

Warnings: mild peril, references to captivity and coercion, dark humour, and one African grey parrot with a long memory.